During the announcement by the road transport department (JPJ) which revealed that a record RM5.07 billion in revenue was collected by the department in 2023, the GOLD series of number plates had generated more than RM17.24 million in revenue, Free Malaysia Today reported.
Announced at the end of January in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Federal Territories Day, the special plate series attracted 23,160 bidders, according to transport minister Anthony Loke.
“Fifty per cent of the revenue from the special number plate series will be allocated to initiatives under the ministry for 2024, such as driving licence assistance, helmet assistance, FlySiswa subsidies, and Social Security Organisation (Socso) contributions for taxi drivers,” Loke said. The transport ministry will be launching more special-series number plates in the future to boost revenue, he added.
The GOLD special series runs from numbers 1 to 9,999, and was made available for bidding through JPJeBid. The leading plate in this series, GOLD 1 belongs to DYMM Yang di-Pertuan Agong Sultan Ibrahim Iskandar, who put in a bid of RM1.5 million for the plate, making this the highest-ever bid for a number plate in Malaysia.
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Loke might as well just quit his job as transport minister and do full time Number Plate Salesman. He finally found his true calling.
Kunta Kinte on Jul 27, 2016 at 5:43 pm
It is true, we need US and FBI to intervene now cause it looks like abuse of number plates. Now, number plates is just to make money for JPJ and Government and has no more value.
We need the FBI and US to come and help sort another mess the monkeys have created.
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This has been happening since BN times. BN is also in the unity government
Gov’t to halt sale of special series vehicle number plates – new e-bidding system begins January 2019
Posted in Cars, Local News / By Anthony Lim / May 24 2018 4:51 pm
If you’ve been eyeing a fancy number plate, time is fast running out – or has run out – to purchase one, because the government has announced that it’s putting an end to the practice of coming out with special series number plates, The Star reports.
Loke janji dicapati like his capati PMX.
You forgot to mention that the 2nd paragraph of that news article also mentioned that the practice of allowing certain NGOs to directly sell special number plates will be halted with immediate effect and that all plate number registrations will have to go through JPJ via e-bidding. Thus, those certain NGOs can still issue special number plates, but those plates can only be sold/auctioned via JPJ e-bidding.
https://paultan.org/2018/05/24/govt-to-halt-sale-of-special-series-vehicle-number-plates-new-e-bidding-system-begins-january-2019/
So you are saying instead of letting NGOs gain the income all that money goes into Loke’s poket? Yeah some minister. What a joke Loke!
Are you suffering from dyslexia? JPJ e-bidding does not put money into the minister’s pocket, you fool!
This useless 69 (Look Kaw) Fu(ck) Minister only know how to sell plates. Two LRT pillars also need to take 1 year. Pathethic. Cases of people driving against traffic, drunk driving, lorry brake failure, etc all increasing. No one is doing anything other than selling number plates.